Famous Quotes & Sayings

AnnaLynne McCord

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

Clive Owen

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

Christy Turlington

Now every model wants to be an actress

Angela Lansbury

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

Alicia Silverstone

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Ana Gasteyer

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Amanda Burton

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Kathy Bates

what informs her, both as an actress and as a director, is that she's a keen observer of the human condition.

Dree Hemingway

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

Danica McKellar

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

Dakota Fanning

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

Clemence Poesy

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

Clemence Poesy

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

Anna Nicole Smith

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

Anna Nicole Smith

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

Claire Bloom

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

I was in the room with a great actress who had no experience with Cherry?s performance ... and we just started working together from scratch.

Abbey Clancy

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

Elton John

Having a great comic actress like Kim is so exciting. I'm a huge fan of hers.

Tanit Phoenix

I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

Albert Einstein

Here I am, just an actress with nothing to say and crowds of people turn up to see me. Yet here is Einstein and the only person who turns up for him is myself.

Her honesty as an actress really comes across. It's shocking how truthful she can be. So many young actresses are geared toward a teen audience, but Evan Rachel Wood draws the critics and fans of the art of acting.

I was completely thrilled. I was just really happy. She's just a wonderful, wonderful collaborator. She's a really good actress and a genuinely nice person and that's a rare thing. She works incredibly hard -- she's in virtually every scene.

Mandy Moore

I think it's the fun and the challenge as an actress to get a meaty part like this and sort of play against type. Sally is pretty far from who I am, so I definitely enjoyed it.

Sherri Saum

I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.

Rachel Ward

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

Sonam Kapoor

I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.

Penelope Cruz

My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.

Anushka Sharma

I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.

Roma Downey

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.

Rose McIver

I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.

Preity Zinta

I'd love to be an award-winning, commercial successful actress! I would love to push myself to the limits as an actress and experiment with playing really interesting women.

Alaina Huffman

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.